My old R9 280x card was getting to the point where many new games refused to run on it, and those that did had to be played at 720P low details. It also consumed a ton of power (250W). The last straw was when I bought Doom Eternal, which, at launch, supported the 280x reasonably well, but the latest patch made the graphics glitch out. So, fed up, I went looking for a replacement. While everything is still hugely overpriced, I found that the RX 6600 XT was generally considered one of the best bang-per-buck cards out right now and it's only rated at 160W. It's also a physically much shorter card. Reviews say its 2-3 times faster than my old card, but they really understate it.
Maybe it's only 2-3x faster in artificial benchmarks at low resolutions or something, but I can now play Doom Eternal at High or Ultra detail WITH raytracing at 1080P at a solid 60fps. My old card had graphical glitches and could barely play it at 720p low detail and ~30fps. I think the core grunt of the GPU is not much more than 2-3x my old card, but the addition of tons of newer features, newer drivers, and more than twice the VRAM allows it to perform an order of magnitude better in more recent games. It also has true DX12 support (the r9 card did not) so everything will run on it regardless of performance.
It's quieter, runs cooler, can run the latest games maxed out (at 1080p anyway) and has yet to give me any trouble, but I did just get it yesterday... We'll see how reliable it in the coming months. I don't plan to mine or anything, so hopefully it will last me years, since I can't justify spending hundreds on a video card very often.
| Memory Speed | 1845 MHz |
|---|---|
| Graphics Coprocessor | AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
| Chipset Brand | AMD |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 8 GB |
